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Tuesday 27 March 2007
14.00 - 18.00
| EUA Board Meeting
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Wednesday 28 March 2007
10.00 - 13.00
| Secretaries General Meeting
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15.00 - 18.00
| EUA Council Meeting |
19.00 - 21.00 | Welcome Reception |
21.00 - 22.10 | Choral and Instrumental Concert |
Thursday 29 March 2007
13.30 - 14.30 | Opening Ceremony Chair: Georg Winckler, EUA President Welcome Addresses - António Sampaio da Nóvoa, Rector, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Antonio Carmona Rodrigues, Mayor of Lisbon, Portugal
- Georg Winckler, EUA President
- José Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education
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14.30 - 16.00 | Plenary Session 1 Chair: Georg Winckler, EUA President The Future of Higher Education beyond 2010
- Ján Figeľ, European Commissioner for Education, Culture and Youth
- David Ward, President of the American Council on Education
- Zhang Xinsheng, P.R. of China Vice-Minister of Education
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16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee Break |
16.30 - 18.00 | Plenary Session II Chair: Lesley Wilson, EUA Secretary General Trends in Higher Education from the Perspective of Institutions: Key messages
from Trends V - Presentation by David Crosier and Lewis Purser, EUA
- Discussion
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20.00 - 22.30 | Reception at Tapada da Ajuda Sponsored by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education |
Friday 30 March 2007
09.30 - 11.00 | Plenary Session III Chair: Ilkka Niiniluoto, Rector of the University of Helsinki, Finland ERC: Strenghtening Frontier Research in Europe's Universities - Fotis Kafatos, President of the European Research Council (ERC), Chair of the Scientific Council of the ERC
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11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee Break |
11.30 - 13.00 | Working Group Session (I) |
13.00 - 14.30 | Lunch |
13.30 - 14.30 | Question and Answer Session on the EUA Statutes Review Process |
13.30 - 14.30 | Session on EUA Institutional Development Activities
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14.30 - 16.00 | Plenary Session IV Chair: Helga Nowotny, Vice-President of the European Research Council (ERC) Future Directions for Higher Education and Research - Institutional Perspectives:
a Debate - Yehuda Elkana, President and Rector, Central European University, Hungary
- John Brooks, Vice-Chancellor, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
- Koen Geven, ESIB President
- Rodrigo Costa, Vice-President of Portugal Telecom
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16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee Break |
16.30 - 18.00 | Working Group Session (II)
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20.00 - 22.30 | Gala Dinner at Estufa Fria Sponsored by the Municipality of Lisbon |
Saturday 31 March 2007
9.00 - 10.30
| Plenary Session V: Conclusions and Recommendations
Chair: President of the Portuguese Rectors' Conference (CRUP) - tbc Main Results and Recommendations from the Working Groups
by the Lead Work Group Chairs |
10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break |
11.00 - 12.30 | EUA Convention 2007: Preliminary Conclusions Chair: Georg Winckler, EUA President - Report by the Convention General Rapporteur Sir Roderick Floud, EUA Vice President
- Questions and Discussion
- Invitation by the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
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12.30 - 13.30 | Closing Ceremony Chair: Georg Winckler, EUA President Closing Address by José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission Concluding remarks by Georg Winckler, EUA President |
13.30 - 14.30 | Lunch |